tyler ryan



UNITED STATES PATENT A OFFICE.

J. TYLER RYAN, OF HAMILTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR ONE-HALF TO LOUIS SNIDERS SONS, OF SAME PLACE.

ART OF MAKING PAPER OF IMPERFECTIO NS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 283,026, dated August 14, 1883.

' Application filed July 2, 1883. (No specimens.)

To aZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, J .TYLER RYAN, of Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Art of Making Paper of Imperfections, of which the following is a specification.

The term imperfections is applied by paper-makers to scrap-paper used as papermaking stock.

My invention relates to an improvement in the method of applying the hot alkaline solution used in cleaning the ink from the surfaces of imperfections. p

lvfy invention consists in showering a hot alkalme solution upon a loose moving mass or stream of the imperfections. By this method the surfaces of the imperfections become well wetted with the solution in an instant of time. I

If a dry mass of imperfections be immersed in a vat of the solution, many scraps of paper will unite and cling. to each other like the leaves of a book, and the solution can only reach the united snrfaces by the slow process of absorption, requiring muohtime and also reafter which the cooking may be proceeded with as usual, or otherwise.

I claim as my invention- The improvement in the art of making paper of imperfections, which consists in subj ecting the imperfections in a loose dry stream to the action of a shower of cleansing solution before cooking.

J. TYLER RYAN.

Witnesses: ISRAEL WILLIAMS, 

